Beppe Grillo backers revolt and urge comic to block Berlusconi

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Beppe Grillo faced a revolt within his own protest movement today as his
internet followers demanded that he strike a deal to govern Italy with the
main left-wing Democratic Party – and end the Berlusconi era.

Mr Grillo, the professional comedian whose Five Star Movement won a quarter of
the vote in this week’s election, mocked the Democratic Party leader, Pier
Luigi Bersani, as a “dead man talking” and posted a picture of him as a zombie
on his widely read blog.

But the youthful netizens who provide his support insisted that he must work
with Mr Bersani in Parliament to